Defenders of Israel’s policies often short-circuit any meaningful dialogue on the Arab-Israeli conflict by reducing the problem to the Arabs and their alleged “rejectionism,” i.e. their refusal to accept Israel’s right to exist.

This argument conveniently removes Israel’s actions from the realm of moral consideration because it implies that changes in Israeli policy will ultimately have no impact one way or another on the ongoing conflict. It is quite difficult for a moral, thinking person to justify Israel’s treatment of the subjugated Palestinians.

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[...] things to my Right-wing friend, they usually take the debate back to the issue of terrorism or “Arab Rejectionism”. If it weren’t for them, they say, we wouldn’t be in the West Bank. After all, there was a [...]